La Duchesse de Guermantes : Laure de Sade Comtesse de Chevigné. Avec un frontispice.
Marta Lucia Lahovary, Princess Bibesco (1886-1973)
Category
Books
Date
1950
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215724
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], XIII, [1], 173, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20cm. Provenance: Inscribed: "To the Marchioness of Londonderry. To you, my Circe ... on my third visit to the gardens of the 'Melusine' of Mount Stewart from your admiring and loving friend, Marthe. Mount Stewart August 9th 1950". [i.e. presented to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles 7th Marquess of Londonderry, by the author Marthe Princess Bibesco (1886-1973). Binding: Twentieth-century quarter polished mottled calf on marbled paper over boards. Gilt armorial stamp displaying Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis). Gilt tooled on spine. Black leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Gilt-top.
Makers and roles
Marta Lucia Lahovary, Princess Bibesco (1886-1973)